Catherine Zeta-Jones has revealed her delight at being given the opportunity to work with fellow Welsh great Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Catherine Zeta-Jones has revealed her delight at being given the chance to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Catherine Zeta-Jones has revealed her delight at being given the opportunity to work with fellow Welsh great Sir Anthony Hopkins.

The two Hollywood A-listers are being reunited again to work on action-adventure comedy, Red 2, which they are currently shooting in London.

It boasts a star-studded cast which also includes Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis and John Malkovich, and is set to hit cinema screens next year.

The movie is the sequel to 2010’s comic book inspired RED, which stands for Retired and Extremely Dangerous, which told the story of where a former black-ops agent, played by Willis, who had to reassemble his old team after getting threatened by an assassin.

The 2010 movie, which had a $58m budget, took almost $200m at the box office.

In the sequel, Zeta-Jones will portray a double agent.

“It’s going really well so far – and it’s especially exciting to be working with some of the best actors in the business,” said the Swansea-born actress.

“It’s great working with Anthony Hopkins, we’re having a great time and it’s an honour.”

It’s not the first time that the 43-year-old, who won an Oscar for her role in Chicago, has starred alongside Port Talbot-born Hopkins, with the pair both starring in The Mask of Zorro in 1998.

Filming for the role has already taken place in several locations, with Zeta-Jones pictured shooting scenes on the streets of Paris last month.

It caps a busy year for the mother of two, who has been involved in several film projects including crime drama Broken City with Russell Crowe, and movie-musical Rock of Ages in which she played prim conservative Patricia Whitmore.

Meanwhile, Hopkins, 74, will next be seen playing legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock in the eagerly awaited biopic Hitchcock, based on the making of the 1960 shock horror flick Psycho.

Zeta-Jones gave Hopkins his glowing recommendation during a visit to Cardiff where she visited patients at the newly renamed Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales.

She has been a patron of Noah’s Ark Appeal and has campaigned for years to raise the funds needed to build the facility. In 2005, her and husband Michael Douglas donated a five-figure sum to the appeal.

She said: “It’s truly wonderful to come back to the hospital. Coming here today, you cannot help but be moved by some of the stories and battles children are going through.

“I feel like I have been here since the conception of this and I feel like family here.”

Following her visit to the hospital on Friday, Zeta-Jones returned to Swansea to visit family and said she always enjoyed the opportunity to return to Wales.

She said: “Whenever I come home, I seem to bring the rain with me. Literally the moment I crossed the Severn Bridge it started chucking it down. But nevertheless, it’s always great to come home.”

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